Well, let’s see. I guess big changes here. Buddy went in for surgery yesterday. They did end up shaving off the part top of his leg bone, re-aligning his leg and putting in a plate with screws (called a TPLO). Yea, ouch! We have to carry him down to the yard to potty, we keep him gated in the family room away from the other dogs and we have yet to find out what works best at night. I also keep giving him Happy Travelers to keep him calm. Happy Traveler is an herbal sedative.
The place we took him was wonderful. We took him to Colorado Canine Orthopedics. Dr. Bauer is the main doctor there, and was the only doctor there for a while. Dr. Reicks (pronounced Ricks) joined him recently and he did Buddy’s surgery. Dr. Bauer is probably one of the best in the nation! I know that I have heard stories of people coming from all over the country to have Dr. Bauer do surgery on their dogs. And the vets around town rave about him. I have also known several people who have had him do surgery and said he is wonderful. Anyway, their office is so great! They have people chairs and next to every people chair is a dog bed. And dog toys everywhere! When we picked Buddy up, he had a whole bag of goodies! And his picture was on a tag on the bag and on his discharge instructions! They sure made the whole process easier, and they were so friendly.
We are attempting to start to move the baby to her room. I am starting by putting her pillow in there for naps. First time was this afternoon, where she is right now. I have discovered that her south facing room gets HOT during the day. So, she is in there, but it’s also 77 degrees! So, I have her ceiling fan on high and a fan in the hallway blowing in. She isn’t sleeping much, probably because it’s so hot. The heating vent was open, so I closed that, and I am going to put a cover over it later. It’s going to be a trial and error trying to figure out how to get it cool in there, but yet, keep it warm enough over night. We might also have to put something like white poster board over the windows to try to reflect some of the sun. If it wasn’t so tacky looking, I would put foil up!
She also is not used to her room. The only other time she has slept in there was when she first came home and was on the lights for her jaundice. And those machines made it really hot in there! But, since she hasn’t been back in there since, and at that point she couldn’t see much, she is not used to being in her crib.
She has been having sleeping issues at night. We aren’t sure why. She wakes up several times and wants her pacifier. We have to hold it in her mouth for a few minutes and then she will finally fall back to sleep. We swaddle her when she is asleep because she sleeps best that way. We tried not swaddling her for about a week, (conveniently Hubby said we should try this and then left town) and I really didn’t get any sleep. So, back to swaddling we went, and it made it a little better. But she also likes to suck on her hands, which you would think would take place of the pacifier. So, we now swaddle one arm and leave one arm free. That seems to be doing to trick. Sometimes instead of demanding the pacifier, she will suck her fingers or thumb. But other times, she wants the pacifier no matter what. So, right now we are working on easing her into her crib and out of her Swaddle Me! She slept more when she was a newborn, I swear!
And she still HATES her rice cereal. I have a call into the pediatrician to ask what she thinks we should try next. I want to try oatmeal, but the other day at the store, I was reading the box and the box said ‘may contain wheat’. Her specialist was very adamant that she not have any wheat until 8 months and up, so I need to ask them if I can try oatmeal or just keep chugging along with the rice cereal she hates! I feel bad forcing something she obviously does not like in her.
We set up her excersaucer for her. It’s one of those stationary play saucer things, you put them in the middle of, the seat swivels and there are toys all around her. She is small in it, but she will sit and look at all the toys. If she is in a good mood, she will sit there for 30 min or more. She will touch some of the toys, but she is not yet really big into toys. The only things she really loves right now are the dangling toys on her bouncy seat. She will reach for those all day long! She loves her bouncy seats. Her favorite is the one her Aunt and Uncle and Cousin in
Well, she is due to get up soon and Hubby is on his way home, so I am gonna run!
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